Attachment for corn-planters



(No Model.)

G. S. PAINE.

ATTAGHMENT FOR CORN PLANTERS. No. 300.117. PatentedJune 10, 1884.

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GEORGE S. IAINE, OF WYANDOTTE, MICHIGAN.

ATTACH M ENT FOR CORN-PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,117, dated June 10, 1884.

I Application filed January 16, 1884. (No model.)

To 0026 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. PAINE, of Wyandotte, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of attachments for corn-planters; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of the parts whereby a device is produced for depositing fertilizingv material in the hill with the corn before the same is covered by the follower, all as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my 'improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a bottom perspective of one end. Fig. 3 is an end elevation showing my device as connected to the hopper of a corn-planter.

1n the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents a suitable hopper, terminating at each end in the delivery-hoppers B, in the bottom of each of which is formed an opening, a, which communicates with a hollow casting, G, secured below, in the bottom of which are formed two openings, 1).

D represents a reciprocating feedbar, designed to be operated by and simultaneously with thefeed-bar of the corn-planter, and to which it is secured by a bar or bars, E, Fig. 3. At' each end of this bar I secure a casting, forming a drop-slide, F, which-has a reciprocating movement in the hollow castings O, and has formed in it an opening, 0, Fig. 1, which in the reciprocation of the bar comes coincident with one of the openings b alternately.

Upon one edge of the dropping-slides F is formed a rack-bar, G, which engages with a pinion, H, the shafts h of which are journaled in the sides of the casting O, and extend upward into the hoppers B, and have secured upon them an agitator-arm, I.

Below each of the hoppers B is secured adelivery-spout, J, which communicates with the delivery-spout K of the planter.

In practice the reciprocating bar D is actuated by the dropping-bar of the corn-planter and simultaneous therewith, so that as the hole of 'the dropping-slides come coincident with one of the holes I) a quantity of the fertilizer contained in the hoppers B is conveyed through the spout J to the spout K of the planter, and deposited in the hill with the corn dropped from the planter, and the reciprocation of the dropping-slides causes the pinions H to rotate and carry with them the agitators I, which prevents the clogging of the fertilizing material in the bottom of the hopper.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination with the hoppers A B, an

agitator, as h I, journaled to said hopper, and

carying a pinion, H, operated by the motion of the grain-slide through the medium of a rack attached thereto, and working through a slot in the casting supporting said slide, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the hopper A B, and hollow casting O, and the shaft h, journaled in said casting, and carrying agitator-arm I and pinion H, of the reciprocating bar D,carrying rack G, meshing with said pinion, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a corn-planter attachment, the combination of the hopper A B, hollow casting 0, bar D, carrying slides F and rack G, and reciprocating in said hollow casting, pinion H, agitator I, and spouts J, substantially as described. GEORGE S. PAINE.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE,

E. SeULLY. 

